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Crteof pottaca. ...
THE LADY AND THE BOBBEBS.
In a charming little village, situate in a
frilly romantic country, but a considerable
distance from tho high road, wasßuron R.
accustomed to spend tho summer. His
mansion, built upon an gminence, was per
fectly adapted to his fortune. It was a
spneious building, very elegant within and
without, and exhibited a good style of ar
chitecture, and it was about two hundred
paces frot/t tho village.
Business dbliged the Baron to take n
journey of a few days. His wife, who
Whs but twenty 'years of age, very beuu
tiful, remnined at home. He took with
him two of his servants, and the other two
left With the baroness. Nfcvioluiion
of the public security had ever been heard
of in that part of the country, and as tho
baroness did not belong to tho timid por
tion of her sex, tlie idea of dunger was far
from entering her mind.
Tho ovening nftcr the Baron’s depart
ure, as she was stepping into, bed, she
heard an nlnrming noiso in an apartment
near her chamber. She, called out but
slje received no answer. The contusion
and screaming increased every moment.
She Was nt a loss to conceive what was
tho matter, and hastily putting on her
garments, went to the door to discover the
cause. A horrid spectacle presented itself!
Her two ser.vants, half naked, were exten
ded lifeless on tho floor.
The room was full of strange looking 1
men; the baroness’ chambermaid was
kneeling before one of them, end instead
of the mercy she implored, sho received
the fatal stroke. No sooner did the' dOor J
open than two barbarians, with druwn
swords, rushed towards it. What woman,
or even man would not have been struck
with the utmost terror, and given up life
and everything as lost ? A loud shriek of
despair, a flight of a few paces, would
probably have be the only resort of many.
The baroness, however, conducted herself
in n different manner.
“Andvdu have come at last?” exclaim
ed she, with a of heart-felt joy, and
advancing towards her assailants with a
' haste that highly nstonished them, they
lowered their uplifted weapons.
“Are you come at last?” repeated she,
“Such visitors as you I havo long wished
to see.”
“Wished?” muttered one of the assass-
do you mean by, that?” But
'stay, I’ll-” .
He had already raised his cutlass but a
comrade averted the stroke. “Stop a mo
ment brother,” said he, “let us first hear
what6ho would havo.” ' I
“Nothing but What is your pleasure,'
brave comrades. You are men after my
own heart, and neither you nor 1 shall
have reason to repent it if you will listen
for two minutes to what Ihaveto say.”
“Speak! speak!” cried the whole com
** “But be quick,” added one of the fierc
est, “for wo shall not make much cere
mony.” V
“Nevertheless, I hope you may. You
grant me a hearing? Know, then, that
although I am the wife of one of the rich
est gentlemen in tho country, yet tho wife
of the meanest beggar cannot be more un
—happy than I afa. My husband is one of
most jealous and niggardly follows on
IPthe earth. I hate him as I hate tho -—*.
and it has long been tho fervent wish ot
my heart to get out of his clutches, and at
the samp time nay off old scores. All my
eervßntB were his spies, and that fellow,
you nave done socomplete-
worst of all. lam .scarcely
twfenty-oneand flattor.myself. farfrotn be
ing ugly. If any. of you choose to take
A rne along *ltH you,,l'll accompany you to
“tfie-Woods oi'to the village alehouse. Nor
eWkU e-fay : df you • have reason to repent
sparing mylife- You are in a well stored
TOphsioh,''but it is Impossible that, you
r ihitild bh all its secret cor
•tfijrSY Thfesel will show you, apd if I do
fabt make you richer by six thousand dol
'Wra; thhn Servei hie as you have served my
chambermaid. ' , . ,
' Robbers of this kind are certain y vil
loma, but nevertheless, they are still men.
The wholly unexpected tendency of the
baroness’ address, added to the more than
ordinhry beitufy: of the female, altogether
appwerful effect on the men
whose hapds were yet reeking with blood,
all'then stepped aside and consulted
ili'U Jow tone for Softie mihutes. The ba
xofcess.'waß left quite alone, but sha betray
ed o'dt the'least wish to escape. She (tenrd
two' or three thus express themselves,—
i “Let’s despatch her and the game is up.”
L Jfche. bowever, scarcely changed her color,
the opposition pfitho others did hot es*
fWldhph her acute ear. One, who was prob*
I 9 Whiy the captain of the banditti now ad*
Winced towards her. ‘ 1
-m Uo asked her tiyice orJfcsfco whether
•Tie might rtly pn'llth trutfu*6f what she
'said— Whether kbsi^uptually ‘wishedto be
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what will not necessity excuse,) he at
length said f '
“Come along then, and lead us around.
The d—l trust you ladies of rank but we’ll
venture for once. But let me tell you be
forehand, that if you were twice us hand*
some as you are, this weapon should
cleave your skull the moment we saw the
least disposition to escape or betray us.
“Then it will enough; and if
this were the only o|jidition of my being
pul to death, 1 would outlive you all, and
even the wandering Jew himself.”
The baroness smiled ns she pronounced
theso words; :and hustily caught up the
neurest lamp as though she was ns anx
ious ns nny of them to collect the plunder
and be gone, conducted the whole party
through every apartment, opened every
door, every drawer and every^hest; ns-
sisted them in emptying them and packing
up the valuables; looked with the utmost
indifierenco over the mangled bodies; —
spoke with the familiarity of an old ac
quaintance to each one of the horrid troop,
and willingly aided with her delicate hands
in the most laborious occupation.
Plate, money, jewels and other valua
bles were now collected together, and the
captain of the banditti was about giving
the order for marching, when his destin
ed bride caught him by the arm. “Did I
not tell you,” said she, “that you would
not repent malting a friend of me and shar
ing my life. You may indeed have your
fling in places you find open; but it is a
pity you cannot come at treasures thnt
are a little concealed. Do you suppose
that among coffers so full there are no se
cret places? Look here, and ihcn you will
be convinced to the contrary.”
She pointed to a secret spring in the
BaTon’s writing desk. Thoy pressed upon
it and out fell twelve hundred dollars.
.“Zounds I” cried the leader of the rob
bers, “now I see you are on incompara
ble woman, i Will keep you for this ns a
duchess.” .
“And perhaps better still,” she replitw,
laughing, “when I tell you of one thing
more. I am well aware that you must
have had spies who informed you of the
absence of my tyrant; but they did not
tell of the four hondrdd guilders which he
received yesterday.”
“Not a sylluble. Where are they ?”
“0, snfe enough under hull'a dozen
locks and bolfs; You would certainly not
have found them and the iron chest had
it not been for me. Come along, comrades.
We have finished above stairs, now wo’ll
see what’s to bo done under it. Come
along with mo, I say, into the cellar.”
The robbers followed, but not without
precaution. At the entrance of the cellar,
provided with a strong trap door, a man
was posted as sentinel. The baroness did
not take the least notice of this. She con
! ducted the whole troop to the vault at the
j farthest Extremity of the cellar. “Here,”
(said she, giving the captain a bunch of
keys, “here, unlock it, and take what you
can find aa a wedding gift, if you can ob
tain the consent of your companions as
readily as you have obtained mine.”
“Lend me them,” said she, “I will find
the way sooner. Indeed, if we don’t make
haste the morning may overtako us. Hal
the reason why neither of us could unlock
it is because I have the wrong bunch of
keys. I’ll soon obtain another,”
She ran up stairs and presently they
Seard her coming down, but she went
slowly as if out of breath with tlje haste
she had made. “I’ve found them I” cried
she at a distance. She was within three
steps of the person placed at the entrance
of the cellar when she made u spring, at
the wretch, who as little expected the dis
solution of the world as such an attack.—
A sirigl.o push with her strength tumbled
him down the stairs from top to bottom.—
In h twinkling she closed the trap door,
bolted it, and thus had the whole compa
ny in the cellar. This was the work of a
single moment. In the next she flotv
across thp court yard, a .candle
sot fire to a detached pig stye. Thc\watch
man ip the neighboring village, perceiving
the flames, instantly gave the alarnp In
a few minutes the inhabitants were out of
their beds, and a crowd of farmors apd
their servants hastened to the mansion.
■The baropess waited for therp at the
gate of the epurt yard. “A few of you,”
said she, “will bo sufficient to put out this
fire to prevent it |rom spreading. But
now , provide yourself with arms, which
you wilt find in abupdanpe in my hus
band’s armory; post yourselves at the
avenues of the cellar and suffer not ope oi
the murderers and rubbers shut upip;|t to
esenpo,” j
Her directions were obeyed, and pot
one of them escaped the punishment due
Ilia crimes. . ■ ■
Old King David, that soldier who had
such splendid victories—that prophet who
had the hohor of predicting the coming of
JesusTihriat'T-that ppet who M ; ?upg.h, | 8
owh sorrowsjnipimorthl,Verse—’King Da*
vidHvos dying, and at the last moment he
called his son Solomon and said to him, “1
gothe waypf<‘«|lthe 'ea rth, be thou strong,
lhereton>, nnd
dates areißraaJl, !/; ~v ,.t.i*- ■
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Clearfield, Pa„ June 3, 1853.
, FromihoGaivoton Nows. child,, whom ho had requested on the even- A PaSaohapii on Brickb. l° n >
An Extraordinary Narrative. log before to talk to, nnd give themnssu- who writes from Washington city Tor t 0
Indian Dfphkdations Thofollowine ranee of their safety, were found lying in Baltimore Swn, says:
let orsays Sre SS' AmmS s from their tent, side by side, as if in deep sleep; “The work on the Cap.tolenlergement
tetter, says me a. w. Amencan, is irom ... £ h , The if had wi n now be prosecuted with vigor, all ob
a gentleman connected with the govorm “^ 8u 2 dt ° t '° a ““ s ; owero informed s , a cles to it being removed. The contracts
mem service of our frontiers. We hTnvo okl rvho hodattompted to for the materials cannot be a subject of
read of similar instances of self-.mmola-I by 'too old Women who had attemp , The brioks nre t 0 be furnish
hon among the American hdians, rather j CBC “P®- ... have received tho f ala l ed at a rate a third less than the market
£l“.w 0° h v 1 blow .SET. Sigslc-Wh »»r« „»■; price. ,ho» E h .h. conu.ri.or ho.. nni.h.r
that since the rangers were disbandoned lying upon Us mother s arm. .I he chief's J'" g 0 fuel Bm he has
the Indians are renewing their predatory ™™ s u'rthat'he did not j rented brick yards at five hundred dollars
' n TTa°ve S T£ SEH ZonTof the meal ’to .eat the spot aliie. Nothing in'a month, and, under all disadvantages is
1 nave just returned irom one 01 mo historv that I have ever read to render this city the real service of re
r :S u, wc s o, £ sc rJ tr -**—-*
iwicc by the ”.' t r l '' n o [ 0 ' | l ] [ L ,"^ ( r j| l '^ ( veniurydto pnintsuct^oscene."rtrabrigh. collect that priming conlrnct and a brick
Mnrch S They'took down a pannel of my 1 moon lighting up the beautiful countenance contract are two different things, and that.
lot ltd led om fill P oflv finest of the mothor-for she was beautiful and though he can claim remuneration for his
horses It was one of the darkest and young— with her innocent boy by her tide, losses on Congress priming,there is no pre-
n!d and the blood still oozing from their ghast- cedent fer remunerating the Government
the robberv must have beon committed be- ly wounds —the husband, father and war- brickmakers for losses onduscon ra s.
tweentand To o’clock morn- 1 rior, still stretched upon thesod; the bloody While upon this subject, I muv remark
ing Tstarted \vMseventeen inen in pur- '.kni.b still grasped in his hand, .coking : thot PkUs ,e the «Jof making bncks, yet
suit, failing to discover a trail, Iproceeded ; terriblo even in death , the sentinel no 1 y ' us it was
to the poston tho head of the clear Fork j five feet from him, his cold blue eve 100 -ns . .u Q Israelites
of Brazos, thence to the Indian agency ing to Heaven, while the figures o 1 e een uries . without straw The
halfway between Phamom Hill and Belli- soldiers hurrying hither and thither in ■ made 8 “ n - dr "' d^ r the ' w es
nap. Up to this point I could hear noth- search of they knew not what, with occa- ! 11 SS
in,, 0 f t he robberv except tho opinion en- sional but mistaken cries indicating some > pecwlly by the introduction nuicb " J
an riiacovory. Tim ..hoi. made ....during nnd lb, cccnnmy . m.»un nbor h.,.
the friendiv Indiuns—which concurred impression on my mind. I had witnessed hitherto failed. It is stye, however, inni
with mv own-that the robberv hod been every description of death and suffering on improvements have recently been made in
cammed bv Witche.as the Lulo field, but no combination : New York, to such nn extern tha a com-
While at the agency u party of that ‘his, of P» 1 '° Ve ’ devotlon > self ‘ lms belTrormed for making bricks
had previously promised to Stem they ciples held by these tribes never to yield u to 'crowd tleler fn Srick built
it was evident they were acting in bad the. still unsubdued warrior, and h» w ' ,e l d », ero lon S’ a Bub3tan,ial ,n, P rove
fuith, and that this was onlv intended ns a and child freely accompanied him to 11s •
subterfuge. I was not disposed to be. tri- last hunting ground. 1 have his shield in I
fled with in this manner; the agent had lt is quite a curiosity and
also lost all patience with them. It was foment, bedecked with Tent hers nnd
accordingly agreed to detnin the chief and wampum. This, with the bow and quiver
the principal portion of his party —consist- of tho little bey, I shall preserve sacredly
ing of nine warriors and several, women, as mementoes of one of the most interest
as hostages, until the whole of the proper- ing scenes histqry has recorded,
ty recently stolen be brought in. Mr. S,
announced to them our determination, nnd
I told them I meant to carry them into
Belknap and hold them ns prisoners, per
mitting two of their number to return to
their tribo and covoy the “talk we had giv
en thorn. Though I fully expected “u
break” on tho announcement, which would
result in the death of Mr. Stem or myself,
or both —indeed I would not hcTve insured
either of our lives at 100 per cent—we
were compelled to face the danger with
apparent indifference. Any manifestation
of fear or suspicion would have increased
the chances of their resorting to the des
perate alternative of “n rush” for liberty,
plunging their knives into whomsoever in
terrupted their passage.
As soon as I told them they were pris
oners, I rose from the bear skin upon
which I bad been silting facing them, and
mounted jcny horse, at the same time draw
ing my pistol, and motioning them to go
to their camp. The chief requested that
I should dismount, that he wiahetj to
speak. I did so, and took a seat on a stool
near by&» He motioned mo to sit in my
former position on the ground. I did so;
ut the same time drawing my knife' under
pretence of cutting tobacco to smoke. Ho
rose, addressed a few remarks to me about
the difficulty of restraining his young men
from stealing, &c., and suggesting that it
would be bettor that lie should return to
his tribe. This I rqfusqd. He,then seem
ingly yielded to his fate, approaching mo
aijd seizing me by the hand, lifted me
from the ground and embracing me, first
pointing to heaven and to ourselves, to in
dicato That the Great Spirit witnessed the
proceeding. I told them I would not hold
them ns close prisoners, but merely giinrd
against thejr escape, by placing sentinels
•{round their camp. Meantime I encamp
ed my command near to theirs, and took
from* them all the arms I could find,—
They retired quietly to their tents at dark,
manifesting not tho sjjghtest intention of
an attempt to escape.
The moon shone as bright as day. 1
hod posted two distinct guards over them,
of six men ouch, with our sentinels. I had
baen up and moving abbut enmp until
twenty minutes before twelve. At twelve
the sentinels were relieved. Thesehtinel
posted more immediotely over their . camp,
had gone neqr tine of their tents,to count
tlie hjittiiier present, while.the corpernl of
the guard, the old sentinel and a, citizen,
who had accompanied me, stood near
looking on; Suddenly one of the Indians
rushed from his seat toward the sentinel,
and presenting a pistol, (ired. This seem
ed to he the signal for a general ,“breqk. _.
•As the ‘ sentinel turned io reireat^ up the
slope towards his companions,., the chiei
Ko-we-aka, rushed from his tent, threw
himself upon tho back of the retreating
'sentinel, and with his knife inflicted sever
al wounds before,he was shotdbwn by thp
old sentinel,; The rest succeeded Jd ef
fecting: their escape, .running. »n .different
directiane, flpd ,M>e
at them with yells of defiance. The chief,
as wus' dii; searching ‘he-»“t,.
had faurposely sacrtfioed hirnself. his wifor
jpd hoy seven years old. . Tho wife and
A Doo Stoky.— A market man who:
daily cornea to this city from his residence I
in Cambridge,, followed by a pet dog of di- j
minutive size, relates a true dog story as|
follows: Besides his little pet, he owns a,
noble Newfoundland dog who usually re-]
mains at homo during the absence of his (
owner at market. It happened that fro-j
quently, while the small dog was following _
his master’s wagon through east Cam- j
bridge, a large quarrelsome dog attacked |
the *pet and worried him exceedingly.— j
One day Inst, week, soon after starting af- j
tor market, the man observed that thedogs j
were following him. Preferring that the
Newfoundland dog should remuin at home, :
ho drove him back; but the dog was de-,
termined to follow, although he was a sec-1
ond time started home. On reaching the
neighborhood of the quarrelsome dog, the ,
attack upon the little dog was repealed .
but instead of running from the enemy as (
he hitherto had done, the little pet main-,
mined his ground. His Newfoundland
companion promptly come to the rescue,
attacked the quairelsomo dog,-and gave
him a sound thrashing, and sent him skulk
ing'ofF. The wrongs of the little dog hav
ing been redrossed, his companion quietly
trotted back, to his master’s house, and his
pet has from that time to the present daily
followed his master to market without mo
lestation* ; The larger dog has since mado
no attempt to leave hi? home.
Boston Journal.
Matrimonial Romance.— The Craw
ford County,'Wisconsin Courier gives the
following item:
‘‘X bit of romance, mixed U P w *th st°b
borri:lfcct's,-bas.'lately fallen to the lot of a
parried couple in this vicinity.
’ hey.had secured,a un jon and pros-'j
pectivo nappines's, in opposition to the
wished,of,the ’**cfld; folks at home,”, and
they were met by the parents
of the liride, ’...ifho, with fire-arms and
pitch-forks, demand their daughter.—
These were arguments quite conclusive to
a man armed only e(yit,h"a horsewhip, and
despite his resistaqce/hjs wife'was carried
a Way—the old man pointing significantly
to adnuble-baird shot gun, to warn the
husband against attempting to rescue her.
Discretion in this caso was the only part'
Of valor, and he returned home to procure
documents to back his claims. Then, like
a true knight, he followed the despoilers of
his hqmo, and overtook them at Sun I’rni
ric, in this State. Entering a complaint
before a magistrate,-against the, old folks
for threatening his life, an officer arrqsted
! them. While they,
the ; husband seized the wife and put out,
leaying'tho old fpiks in custody fls security
fpr.cpsts, we suppose,as;the, happycQuple'
are ,now, salb ip their, own,home.’’;
It often happens that they nrajtjie ,best!
! people whose characters have been most
liMored we often find it to :
! |to the sweetest foait which thebirds hatre
|been pickingat;i i t-ia; i! f
(£rA late GermoD writer.sayathatthe
peoplo or the United. States can hurst more
steamboats i and: chew, morei tohhceo thanj
any ptlier five nations in the worlds.
Number 21.
A Musical Fish. — A writer, in a lato
number of the Bombay Times, states, that
whilst sailing in a boat on n slrenm near
Bombay, the party of which he was one,
were startled by the sound of music, but
which proved subsequently to come from
the surface of the water all around the
vessel., The sound was like a musical bell
or like the strian of on jEolion harp. The
j boatmen at once intimated that sounds were
produced by fish abounding in the muddy
creeks and shoals aronnd Bombay and Sal.
sette, perfectly woll known and vory often
heard. Accordingly on inclining the ear
[ towards the surface of tho water, or by
placing it elose to the planks of the vessel,
i tho notes appeared loud and distinct, and
followed each other in constant succession.
The boatmen next day produced speci-
I mens of the fish—a creature closely resem
bling in size and shape the fresh water
' perch ortho North of Europe—and spoke
'of them ns plentiful, and perfectly well
known. The writer of the account is
| stated to have been one of a party of five
intelligent persons, by all of whom they
| wore most carefully preserved, and the im
pressions of all of whom in regard to them
‘ were uniform. It is supposed that the fish
'are confined to particular localities, sbal
| lows, estuaries, and muddy creeks, rarely
! visited by Europeans, and that for that
I reason no mention has hitherto been made
] of the peculiarity of the fish in any work
' on natural history.
‘ 'lioWv ''SfJjif IMBNTB. —A man who lived
and died many years ago wrote as follows.
“T’rUe hope is based on energy of char
acter. A strong mind always hopes, and
has always pause to hope, because it
knows the mutability of human affairs, and
how'slight a'circumstance may change
the whole course of events. Such a mind
rests upon itself; it'U not confined to partial
views, or to one particular object; and if,
at last, all should lie lost, it has saved it
self, its own integrity and worth.
•‘Hope awakens courage, while despon
dency is the' last of evils ; it is the aban
donment df good, the giving up of the bat
ltd, of life with dead nothingness. Ho who.
can plant couruge in the hnman soul is
the best physican..
“To seek to govern rncn by their fears
and their ivants is an unworthy purpose ;
the desire to rule by means of cowardice
is itself cowardice,” ' . :
A COKECTIDKA OF LlBERTVi— Burko’s
idea of liberty is capital. Ho says;—
“Men nro qualified for civil liberty in
cxuct proportion-to their disposition to put
chains upon their own appetites ; in pro
portion ns their love of justice is above
their rapacity; in propdrtionas theirsound
ness and sobriety qf understanding is above
their vanity and presumption; in proportion
as they are more disposed to listen to the
counsels of the wise and good, iti prefer
enco: to the flattery of knaves. Society
cannot exist unless n controllingpowermtqf'
the will and appetite is placed
and tlio lessofit therais withirr^' njh^d l
itherO tlnusi be ef it without. ih'qt
in tHe eternal; cdnstitutioij/an nt)t ;yQ.p rd s;
men ofiiutemf)erateimJgjrg.>ti:l \-
iPtissions forjte'thei ' ■"
ref*
~r» *!Wovjng old; people
.jg; .neydr
lo thq nbwisodi,;; ■ ;, V; i j, i
<8 Wt>w poUabed.iwietyi
imiaUty thara.iiinit!!’ , •!
is likg re-
to s, month., 400 ldo to,lrK'
to IS month., ■ ' 500 fdo do lijEr. Spd,
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WOLF NURSES.
The story of Romulus and Rdinus be*
ing suckled by a wolf is accepted as fabu.
lous; but the following statetnent,is strict-
ly true: • ;i •
In the kingdom of Oude, some ten years
ago, a male child about eight months old
was missed by its parentß. It was suppos*
ed to have been carried away and devduc*
ed by the wolves, which ura very, plentiful
in that part of tho world; Every winter
numbersof children are destroyed by these
animals, not only in Oude, but in our own
provinces in the north-west.
About seven years after the child was
missing, a man who gained his livelihood
by shooting in the jungles saw a wolf and
several cubs, and with them an upimal
such.as he never seen before, ■lt was like
a boy, but ran upon all fours. The mao
followed the nnimal. but was unable to
keep pace with it; he traced it, however,
to a den, and a few days afterwards he
succeeded in taking the animal, alive. It
barked, or rather snarled and growled
like a wolf, and attempted to bite its cap
tor. The she-wolfand her cubs followed
the man for some distence, and several
times showed symptoms of a desire to re
scue theaniniul; butaslho man wasarip
ed, they did not venture to attack him,
and at last thoy returned to the jungle.
The animal was exhibited at Lucnoyy.
and caused soma sensation. It was event
ually handed over to one of the authorities
(an English officer) who had a cage made
Ibr it. That it was a human being (to one
could doubt, though it never stood erect, ,
and never uttered any sound except a
growl or n hoarse bark. It refused every
description of food that was cooked for it,
and would only eat raw flesh, which ,it
would devour voraciously. Clothes was
made (or it, but it tore them off with its
teeth. A rank smell issued from the pores
of its skin, and its skin was covered with
short thin hair. The smell was that of
the wolf, by whom it had been brought up.
It was very partial to , hard bones,: and
would chew and digest themas a dog would..
In a word, this animal had adopted all the
habits of its foster-mother—the she-wolf.
Crowds of natives evo;y day ;came to/loqk
at the strange creature, and at last the wo
man who had loßt-the child waa an|png
the spectators. By certain mar(tyt}pon
the animal she recogized in it her.
offspring ; but she was hy no meansi spy*
ous to have it restored to her., Qn (h u
contrary, sho regarded it with extrpm' 3
horor and disgust. ■ , ~: v i.i
Every means were resorted to, to.tsppo
the boy ; but without affect. Shut
his iron cage, ho seemed to.pine,; apd
would never touch fqod until forced to do
so by the pains of hunger, U would Jiaye
been dangerous to let him go out of ; the
cage; for he was as savage as any r: \viW
beast of the desert. Numerous u|tqmpts
: were made to teach him to speak ; but l?e
uttered no sounds beyond those already
mentioned. He lived for, about; a .year,
and became in that tiroo a pprfect, hying
skeleton. Just previous to hi? death he
said a few words, which the man who hao
charge of him understood to be these, Sec l
durd kerta.” (Mv head acl]e?.) ; , i
This is not the only instance on ; recofd
of a wolf having brought upa young child,
whom it had carried away from tts pantn|s.
Some fourteen months ago an
taken in the district of Mozuffernugger,
und broughttothe station of Meerut. It. was
a boy of about five years of age, ,and a
more revolting sight it would be dfficult to
conceivo. The palms of-the hahds, and
the soles of the feet Were as hard. as. Jb°
hoofs of a horse. His ! movements wejro
as mmole as those of a monkey,
unlike those of that animal. Several Bog*
liah dogs which saw this child showed a
disposition to attack Anti destroy it '(this
was, of course, prevented,) While the cljuu
in return snarled at ilie dogs, iind'shejved
its teeth, as though U] wore ijhhh these
weapons that it .would t'est itb . defence..
This boy, tpq, like the qne taken 1 in Oufle,
refused to eat anything butaniniuHood--
uncooked; nor would it tuefi qven that In
tho presence of n*huthan being. ..
In the provinces subject Bntiqh To|e,
a reward of five rupees (ten ’ shiljingsm
given for eyery dead Wolt,: by:.tp6--nwß*
trate, under orders 'from the, (xotlerpjv -
The natives, however, m
bring them plive to a mey
allow gentlemen’s dogs tg^
death-fofaconsidera^ 111 ™ o . ll^^-
vious.to taking »
: Claiming tbo^^,3 e , , S P or ‘ l ■ r
j ..i.* 0 b tip ds the
w°lf pScfpio,hove little
“yy for a beast who iyilf often epfer'
pf a villager by night, and carry
>§y a chi|d ; fromits,mother’s aide. These
<leprediitidns havp of late years 1 become
less frequent than thqy were formetlyj'and
erd long.lt fa v; bu t reasonable ; |to'• suppPae,
they will ofvfery ;farq J
beit the utter extinction of the 11 race rr)av
b 6 - regarded : n.s ‘ hopeless.— Hotdehoid
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